Klara Ungar (singer)
Klara Ungar , also Clara Ungar ( 1840 in Vienna - 16 May 1916 in Schöneberg near Berlin ) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ) who performed in Germany.
Life
Her parents died young and she was raised in the family of an uncle along with her two sisters, who would later become actresses Louise Ungar and Marie Ungar. After her talent for singing was discovered, she became a student of Heinrich Proch and Richard Löffler in Vienna . She made her debut at the Neustrelitz Court Theater as "Agathe" in Freischütz . Then she went to Augsburg , Stettin and the Kroll Opera in Berlin . When Arthur Woltersdorff left the opera, she went to the Riga Opera, then to Danzig and returned to Berlin in 1863Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtische Theater back. There she worked almost exclusively in Offenbach operettas . Due to overexertion, she lost her voice here and had to slowly restore it. In 1874 she left Berlin again and was engaged in Hamburg , Breslau , Magdeburg and Düsseldorf . From then on she played on theaters in Dessau (1878 to 1881), Saint Petersburg , again in Breslau (1883 to 1885), at the Brno City Theater (1887 to 1889), at the Court Theater in Oldenburg (1890 to 1895), then for the third time in Breslau, at the Schauspielhaus Munich and at the Belle Alliance Theater in Berlin. In 1900 she withdrew from the stage. She died in Schöneberg near Berlin in 1916.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Ungar, Clara . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 49th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1884, p. 43 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Klara Ungar . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 1058-1059 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Fourth, enlarged and updated edition. KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 , p. 24681 f.
- German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 10, p. 182
Web links
- Klara Ungar in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Individual evidence
- ^ Death register StA Schöneberg II, No. 498/1916
- ↑ DNB 116291710
- ↑ DNB 131915282
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hungarian, Klara |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hungarian, Clara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1916 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Schöneberg |